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    Steering a tractor all summer then steering a chainsaw all winter!

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  1. Think he'll do 5 or 10 best bet is to give him a call & yeah he normaly has vented.
  2. MCA Kingston, top bloke you can find him on eBay.
  3. Not a lot! Ash or not there's gunna be a lot of work & cost to get that from site to log!
  4. No what you mean, went to a friends recently for dinner, while we were there he was keen to show off his new log burner & had picked up a net of softwood from a garage on his way home rather than wait for the load I was delivering next day. Honestly heaver than a lump of oak and wetter than an otters pocket! Certainly not fit for purpose!
  5. Good thinking Steve! now where did I put that hose pipe!!!?
  6. Was chatting to a coal man I deal with today and he's been told trading standards are now pushing for log nets to be sold by weight i.e 10kg 25kg etc! A; anyone else heard this? B; how the hell will that work? Weigh a net when you fill it, it will be x weight then month later same net will be y weight! Looks like you would only be able to net them at point of sale?
  7. Cheers for the replies guys! Seems my figures are not to far out then (makes a change!!!) still not sure round wood is the way to go in terms of end results, just like the fact supply is a little more controllable etc? Sandbach sticks what size nets are you filling?
  8. Agreed! Paid £35 a cm for some large ash, been down 12 months already to good stuff. All split into 4' billets then through the saw bench or log swift, no real hard work with it really & loads of logs out of it!
  9. My mate bought a Oxdale machine resently, which I used for from new while my machine was in dry dock! It's ok as a hobby machine but build quality is pretty poor. Not a machine built to last by any means, but it all depends on how much you aim to use it I guess? Like most things in life you get what you pay for! Oh and he didn't get a tct blade, big mistake! Lost it's edge very quickly resulting in belts slipping far to easily even after tightening. It won't take long to spend more on sharpening than the cost of the tct option!
  10. Nice stuff, I cut a lot out of our pheasant pens each year. All go's in the Rayburn.
  11. Im looking for a little help!? I'm trying to work out roughly how many 40x50 or 45x60 nets (stacked or loose filled) you can get from a meter of roundwood. I've got figures going round and round on paper using guesstimates etc. But thought there maybe someone on here that may be able to shed a little more light on the subject? I'm using joinery waist at the mo, looking to switch to roundwood larch/pop etc. Thanks in advance. Andrew.
  12. Same go's for chestnut, almost impossible to stop it going mouldy.
  13. We tend to use between 1 & 2 barrows a day (depends if the wife's home!) the way I look at it is year on year there's probably no real saving over oil/gas but my house is alway warm (probably to warm) where as if I use the oil boiler the house is only warmed at set times morning/eve and being an old drafty house bloody freezing the rest of the time.
  14. Parish mags are by far the best bet round here, my local ones this year worked out on average £1000 orders taken from new customers per £20 spent per month per ad. I always make a point of asking any new inquiries how they came to call me, this info is then added to my accounts software so year on year I can see what works in which area of trading and relative cost.

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